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Before Lumira Designer GA, the Conditional Formatting feature in Design Studio was limited to displaying formatting rules from BW data source that are: Defined in the BEx query by Exceptions Defined in Analysis for Excel by Formatting rules (Smart copying) Both solutions required IT involvement and corresponding lead-times. Now with Lumira 2.0, this feature is…

In the first blog about SAP Lumira 2.0 you got the highlights of new features in the new SAP Lumira 2.0 Designer (see All you need to know about SAP Lumira 2.0 Designer fka SAP Design Studio). Now in this the second of a series of deep dives on the features of SAP Lumira 2.0 Designer,…

Introduction In a previous blog you got the highlights of new features in the new SAP Lumira 2.0 Designer (see All you need to know about SAP Lumira 2.0 Designer fka SAP Design Studio). Now this is the first deep dive into one of the features of SAP Lumira i.e. Lumira documents. DocumentWith SAP Lumira 2.0,…

Virtual Insanity Read in In 1996, the artist Jamiroquai released the song Virtual Insanity. In that song he predicts a future where we as a people are threatened by technology. Trying to figure out how SAP BW’s relatively new virtual InfoProviders work might drive one virtually insane. To prevent any BW modelers from experiencing virtual insanity,…

The Age of Virtual Reality Read in In the days of old when Wi-Fi wasn’t readily available and Google was nothing but a misspelling of the word googly, BW could not join virtual InfoProviders based on external data. Not any longer. Why? Because of the Open ODS View (OODS) & the HANA CompositeProvider (HCPR). How…

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